Involuntary Displacement and Resettlement — Policy and ... - CEPA

displacement and enumerates the critical events that mark the process ofdisplacement of the people of Sampur. Section 4 is an explanation of theprocess of gathering data for our study. Section 5 proposes a categorisationof livelihoods that is more amenable to the CID setting. Section 6 presentsfour case studies of households from the main sample and identifies somesalient features that underlie livelihood losses. Sections 7 and 8 extend thiswork with a cross sectional analysis of the complete sample. Section 9contrasts livelihood restoration in CID and DID settings. Section 10 providessome concluding remarks.2 Displacement and IDP IncomeThe general understanding is that development projects have an overallpositive impact on the population of a country. To put it in economic terms,the development projects are welfare maximising. However, Cernea (1995:Figure 1), using resettler’s income curve, identifies that there are significantwelfare losses for IDPs, even if all lost assets were replaced or compensatedby the project. These losses are represented respectively by white andshaded areas (DD 1AC) in Panel 1 of Figure 1, which reproduces Cernea’sincome curve.Figure 1: Cernea’s resettler’s income curve during displacement andrelocation.IncomeDD 1Panel 1 Panel 2C NRRER 1DAIncomeE 1NRCRNR 1C 1D 1AR 1t t+n t+xTimet-n 1 t t+n 2 t+xTimePanel 1 is the original income curve proposed by Cernea (1995: 255) relevant to the DIDsituation. In Panel 2 we extend and adapt Ceanea’s model to the CID situation.61